Silly/Stupid things we believed as children.

[soilent]

No religion references please, I wanna keep this out of politics and religion.
When I was a kid, I kept my door open at night in case dracula walked in, so i could run around my bed and out the door. (yes, I practiced this repeatedly.)
I firmly believed my Mirror was Optimus Prime.
I thought I could build a rocket ship out of a 2 liter bottle and the power cord to a lamp.

 

[Marter]

I believed that nothing bad could ever happen to me. I was only 4 or 5, but it still seems really silly to this day.

 

[Gigaguy64]

I remember as a kid i used to believe that covering my head with my covers would keep any monster that entered my room away or make me invisible to them.

 

[demoman_chaos]

Santa and the Easter bunny.

 

[notsosavagemessiah]

i used to believe robots peered through my window every night, and that god would protect me from them. lol.

 

[SimuLord]

I was pretty free of superstition as a kid. It wasn't until I was a teenager playing baseball that I REALLY got superstitious---Bill "Spaceman" Lee's got nothing on me.

Also, I believed that Ronald Reagan was God's messenger on Earth and that he was like Captain America protecting us from the evil Communists.

 

[Littlee300]

i used to believe robots peered through my window every night, and that god would protect me from them. lol.

let me guess... you were so scared you made up a excuse why they can't get you. Human nature... you are such a *****

 

[soilent]

Jesus
After watching a few horror movies that I was faaaaaaaaaar too young to see. Some of them involving witches. When laying in bed at night I used to get like jabbing feelings in my nuts. Like a poke with a pin. I honestly believed it was witches in my bed jabbing my nads but was too scared to pull up the blankets and look since then they would eat my face. (Damn you Pet Cemetery!)

Oh and of course the standard, there is a evil death clown living under my bed. Damn you IT!

My girlfriend is still scared of porcelain dolls since she is convinced they come to life when you are not looking.

Just tell her.

DONT BLINK, they're that fast.
heh...

 

[notsosavagemessiah]

it certainly is.

 

[Kimarous]

I've never been a big candy eater. One time, as a little kid, I tried licorice for the first time. The taste itself seemed rather "meh" to me, but I got this weird sensation about me and I came to the weird conclusion that I shrank ever so slightly. For the next few years, I firmly believed that licorice made people shrink.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I used to think the world consisted entirely of 2 countries, Canada and the United States.

 

[R1CK_D0M]

hey remember that peekaboo thing parents used to do with their kinds, and the kids believed their parents were gone until they opened their hands again? Yeah it doesn't get more silly than that.

 

[Yamikotai]

When I was six I wanted to be an architect. Wait, I still want to be an architect...

 

[Necrodeth]

My dad didnt want me getting into the boiler room as a kid, so he told me if i touched anything in there the house would blow up.Believed that till I was 10 years old and realized how stupid it sounded.

 

[BlindMessiah94]

I used to think that every Robot uprising movie was so dumb, because metal rusts, and as soon as it rained the uprising would be over with malfunctioning robots, and if you were too lazy to wait for rain why not just airdrop water over them so they short circuit?

Only later did I realize that there are some metals that indeed do not rust, and even so, rusting is not a instantaneous phenomena.

 

[The Mick]

That the mighty morphin power rangers were real.

 

[The Kraken]

I used to think that there was a monster that lived in the toilets, and the sound it made whenever you flushed it was him coming up to eat me because I had pissed him off. So I would either flush the toilet and run out of the bathroom or, if it was nighttime, not flush at all. My parents were pretty glad when I aged out of this phase.